Commandos 3: Destination Berlin

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Hope that vein in your forehead has healed, the boys are back at war. New screens and info inside.

By Newsey McNewserson

Commandos 2 is probably the one of the toughest games to see release on the PC since IGN's inception. Not because of the need for incredible reflexes or the fight against insanely accurate AI, but because it was both an immensely challenging strategy game and an insane puzzler. These two areas melded and bred into the nightmare of twitch game players all over the world, and the shining beacon of good design for gamers looking for a brain bender. Since Commandos 3 was announced as being slated for summer release this year, we had all started taking our vitamins and begun rigorous workouts solving high level logic problems in preparation for the coming challenge. Now we're seeing that it might not be as difficult due to some gameplay changes. Yeah... right.

Commandos 3: Destination Berlin will have three different campaigns to keep players entertained accompanied by "a strong narrative" with cinematic briefing screens to get you right into the mood. The campaigns will have the squad participating in events surrounding Stalingrad, Central Europe, and Normandy. All of these campaigns feature a bunch of different tactical situations that can be played in any order.

Along with the new missions structure comes new gameplay styles as well to make the game more "accessible than previous games in the series." Along with the classic Commandos style gameplay, you'll also have to set up ambushes, assault positions, and deal with level bosses. You can expect to see heavily contested battlefields where your tactics will need to change during battles when enemy bombing runs change the landscape dramatically. Lastly, there will be a deathmatch multiplayer mode where gamers will be able to take on 7 of their friends online or across a LAN.

We'll have to wait and see how that all works out, but Pyro has a proven track record for developing quality games so we'll all just have to trust in that until we have a chance to see the game in action. Expect more complete information by E3 at the latest.